Early Years Practitioner

Overview

The Early Years Practitioner Level 2 apprenticeship typically spans a period of twenty-four months, with a minimum of twelve months required. This structure ensures that apprentices receive ample time to develop their skills and knowledge.

Early Years Practitioners work and interact directly with children on a day-to-day basis supporting the planning of and delivery of activities, purposeful play opportunities and educational programmes within the ethos of the setting.

In their daily work, an employee in this occupation interacts with parents, children, colleagues and wider multi agency professionals and partners such as health visitors, social workers and speech and language therapists.

They will be responsible for supporting child initiated and adult led activities based around the needs and interests of each individual child, supporting children’s learning through planned, purposeful play opportunities and educational programmes and working as part of a team to ensure each child feels safe and secure.

They will also work in partnerships with other colleagues, parents and/or carers or other professionals, with support from a more senior member of the team, to meet the individual needs of each child. They will also have a responsibility for ensuring that they recognise when a child is in danger and/or at risk of serious harm or abuse and contributing to the health and safety of the children, staff and others on the premises.

Typical Job Titles Include

Assistant childminder, Early years practitioner, Nanny and early years worker, Nursery assistant, Nursery nurse, Nursery practitioner.

To access a more in-depth exploration of the Early Years Practitioner Level 2 standard and its Assessment process, sign-up for access to our information webinar with our Sector Manager, Sophie Grand.

For further details, you can view our Apprenticeship Assessment standard page or get in contact with the NQual team.